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TAR16 - EP5: "I Think We're Fighting the Germans, Right?" (France)
theschnauzers:
One thing people have to keep in mind -- there was no guarantee that Joe and Heidi would not have been eliminated even if Louie and Michael hadn't used the U-Turn. I can't imagine how Joe could have used the bike with his foot being as painful and difficult to use as it was. (His only option would have been to walk (with the bike) the four kilometers and that might have still been deemed a violation of Race rules requiring a penalty for not following the directions in the clue.
Teams some people like or even many prople have liked have been eliminated because of a task in the past. To quote another show's best known line "All this has happened before, and will happen again."
Sailing:
How many miles was the bike ride to the Pit Stop?
alittlebird:
4 miles (or maybe km, I can't remember) - but that means Brent & Caite did 12 and still weren't eliminated. Quite the comeback.
serendipity:
--- Quote from: cowboybob on March 15, 2010, 06:54:46 PM ---You can try out your Morse code skills by checking this website. I found it not that difficult.
http://www.glassgiant.com/geek/morse/ :jam:
--- End quote ---
Thanks for the link! I tried to key in the message to decode in the race, and it's so confusing!
I don't know if the set up is like this, but I think the problem is that Joe/Heidi did not expect the message to be that long, and I wonder if they knew where to start and end a message because we kept hearing the code in this leg without start and end, this would further confuse them for the task.
In fact, when you watched the show, you can see that Joe/Heidi partly guessed the correct direction of the message, they thought it would be the same as the other detour option at first (Viva la liberte or The war is over), and then they tried to change it to phrases similar (victoire), I think the problem is that they didn't expect the message to be the same format as the one in another detour option (one English phrase + one French phrase).
I think this task is fine, but it's better to be a Roadblock because all teams just skipped that task immediately as the level difficulty of both tasks were so large, I just wonder if Brandy could manage to do that... :lol3:
Slowhatch:
--- Quote ---4 miles (or maybe km, I can't remember)
--- End quote ---
That's about right--4 miles, give or take. Although the pitstop sign said Verdun, the mayor said--my French is lousy, but I think he said Wargemoulin. At least the buildings seem to match.
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